The Banff Mountain Book Festival is an annual book festival held every autumn at the Banff Centre in Banff, Canada. The festival started in 1976.
A primary event is the Banf Mountain Book Award.
Banf Mountain Book Award Grand Prize 1994: Chris Bonington and Audrey Salkeld (editors), Heroic Climbs 1995: Thomas Wharton, IcefieldsCanadian Writers: Thomas Wharton 1996: Stephen Venables, Himalaya Alpine-Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks 1997: , Mont Blanc: Discovery and Conquest of the Giant of the Alps 1998: Audrey Salkeld, World Mountaineering: The World's Great Mountains 1999: Paul Pritchard, The Totem Pole 2000: Bradford Washburn, Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography 2001: Roger Hubank, Hazard's Way 2002: W. H. Murray, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Mountaineer's Tale 2003: David Roberts, Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of Survival 2004: Chris Duff, Southern Exposure: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island 2005: Karsten Heuer, Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd 2006: Jeff Long, The Wall 2007: James M. Tabor, Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters 2008: Sid Marty, The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek 2009: Jerry Moffatt, Niall Grimes, Jerry Moffatt: Revelations 2010: John Long, The Stonemasters: California Rock Climbers in the Seventies 2011: Bernadette McDonald, Freedom Climbers 2012: Philip Connors, Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout 2013: Tim Cope, On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads 2014: John Porter, One Day as a Tiger: Alex Macintyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism 2015: Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk 2016: Jean McNeil, Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir 2017: Jim Herrington, The Climbers 2018: Paolo Cognetti, The Eight Mountains 2019: Bryce Andrews, The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear 2020: Hank Lentfer, Raven's Witness: The Alaska Life of Richard K. Nelson 2021: Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest 2022: Jonathan Howland, Native Air 2023: Helen Mort, A Line Above the Sky
Other categories
Mountain Literature Mountain Image Adventure Travel Mountaineering History Guidebook Special Jury Mention Canadian Rockies Award
See also Banff Mountain Film Festival Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
References
External links Banff Mountain Festivals